Spread spectrum communication device and communication system

ABSTRACT

A structure of a spectrum spreading communication device which solves the problem with the conventional spectrum spreading communication using Barker codes, etc., and limits the rise of the side-lobe of a correctional signal independently of the order of information codes by use of a code sequence having a code length of at least 14. The spectrum spreading communication device uses a pseudo-noise code having code length of at least 14 and a self-correlation side-lobe of not greater than 3 as a pseudo-noise code of a direct spreading communication device which uses the pseudo-noise codes whose polarities are inverted so as to deal with also digital information. Thus, even when the pseudo-noise code length is 14 or more, the side-lobe of the correction coefficient can be restricted. Accordingly, the error rate of the spectrum spreading communication device is reduced and the processing gain is improved.

[0001] The present application is a continuation of application Ser. No. 09/558,373, filed Apr. 26, 2000; which is a continuation of application Ser. No. 08/875,182, filed Jul. 21, 1997, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,134,264, the contents of which are incorporated herein by reference.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

[0002] The present invention relates to surface acoustic wave devices and communication devices.

[0003] In conventional spread spectrum communication devices using the direct spreading method, a Barker code was used as a pseudo noise code as described in 1985 ULTRASONICS SYMPOSIUM proceedings, pp. 145-148, for example. It is known that this code does not depend on the arrangement of an information code sequence and this code has an auto-correlation side lobe of 1.

[0004] The Barker code has been found with the code length of 13 or less. The Barker code has not been found with a code length exceeding it. In the case where a processing gain of a code length of at least 14 was required, therefore, a code other than the Barker code, such as the longest code sequence was used. In these code sequences, however, a large side lobe rise is caused when the sign of the information code is inverted. In general, therefore, the error rate is increased.

[0005] An object of the present invention is to solve the above described problem and provide a novel structure of a spread spectrum communication device which uses a code sequence having a code length of at least 14, which does not depend on the arrangement of the information code, and which suppresses the side lobe rise of correlation signals.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

[0006] The above described object can be achieved by employing a code sequence used by the present invention, i.e., a code shown in TABLES 1 through 9 as the pseudo noise code for spreading the power density spectrum of an input signal.

[0007] It has been confirmed by calculation conducted by the present inventors that the code shown in TABLES 1 through 9 has an auto-correlation coefficient side lobe of 3 or less. If this code is used, therefore, there is obtained a novel spread spectrum communication device and communication system which has a processing gain having an auto-correlation coefficient side lobe of at least 14, which does not depend on the arrangement of the information code, which suppresses the side lobe rise of the correlation signal, and which makes the error rate small. In addition, a surface acoustic wave device utilizing this characteristic is obtained.

[0008] The present invention relates to a novel code having a processing gain with a code length of at least 14 and an auto-correlation side lobe of 3 or less. The code length is determined in some cases by using harmonics of the crystal (oscillation frequency in the case where a frequency multiplier is used). In other cases, the code length is generated independently of the clock frequency of the baseband digital circuit.

[0009] It is now assumed that the code length is determined by using harmonics of the crystal. If harmonics are generated by distorting the oscillation waveform of the clock frequency in order to make harmonic components large, for example, only odd-number components included in harmonic components are typically generated. If its odd-number components are used as the clock of pseudo noise code generator, therefore, a value obtained by dividing the clock of the pseudo noise code generator by the clock frequency of the baseband digital circuit, i.e., the code length is obtained. To be concrete, an odd-numbered code length such as 15, 17, 19, . . . is obtained.

[0010] In the case where the obtained odd-numbered code length is applied to a spread spectrum communication-device, two code lengths are combined and used in some cases. To be concrete, it is a result of multiplication of odd-numbered code lengths. A value of at least 14 such as 15, 21, 25, 27, . . . is used as the code length.

[0011] In the case where the code length is generated independently of the clock frequency of the baseband digital circuit, it doesn't matter at all whether the code length is even-numbered or odd-numbered and consequently values of at least 14, i.e., values 14, 15, 16, 17, . . . are obtained.

[0012] In either case, a pseudo noise code formed by a large number of combinations in respective code lengths is present. Out of them, the present inventors found a novel code which is 3 or less in auto-correlation side lobe and which is effective as the pseudo noise code used for spreading the power density spectrum of an input signal. The present inventors also found a novel pseudo noise generator capable of executing spreading (or de-spreading) of the power density spectrum of an input signal by using those codes.

[0013] The following TABLES 1 through 9 show the pseudo noise code concerning the present invention. TABLE 1 n = 14) max. corr. max. corr. number bj (forward) (back) dc level 202 00000011001010 2 6 −6 332 00000101001100 2 6 −6 404 00000110010100 2 8 −6 405 00000110010101 2 6 −4 410 00000110011010 2 10 −4 470 00000111010110 2 10 −2 665 00001010011001 2 10 −4 691 00001010110011 2 10 −2 811 00001100101011 2 10 −2 821 00001100110101 2 10 −2 1883 00011101011011 2 10 2 2375 00100101000111 2 10 −2 2656 00101001100000 2 8 −6 2767 00101011001111 2 10 2 3232 00110010100000 2 6 −6 3247 00110010101111 2 10 2 3322 00110011111010 2 10 2 4021 00111110110101 2 10 4 4622 01001000001110 2 10 −4 5145 01010000011001 2 6 −4 5251 01010010000011 2 10 −4 5312 01010011000000 2 6 −6 5313 01010011000001 2 8 −4 5327 01010011001111 2 10 2 5535 01010110011111 2 6 4 5728 01011001100000 2 10 −4 5758 01011001111110 2 10 4 6092 01011111001100 2 10 2 6118 01011111100110 2 10 4 6575 01100110101111 2 10 4 6645 01100111110101 2 6 4 6650 01100111111010 2 10 4 6880 01101011100000 2 10 −2 7186 01110000010010 2 10 −4 7989 01111100110101 2 8 4 8090 01111110011010 2 10 4 8293 10000001100101 2 10 −4 8394 10000011001010 2 8 −4 9197 10001111101101 2 10 4 9503 10010100011111 2 10 2 9733 10011000000101 2 10 −4 9738 10011000001010 2 6 −4 9808 10011001010000 2 10 −4 10265 10100000011001 2 10 −4 10291 10100000110011 2 10 −2 10625 10100110000001 2 10 −4 10655 10100110011111 2 10 4 10848 10101001100000 2 6 −4 11056 10101100110000 2 10 −2 11070 10101100111110 2 8 4 11071 10101100111111 2 6 6 11132 10101101111100 2 10 4 11238 10101111100110 2 6 4 11761 10110111110001 2 10 4 12362 11000001001010 2 10 −4 13061 11001100000101 2 10 −2 13136 11001101010000 2 10 −2 13151 11001101011111 2 6 6 13616 11010100110000 2 10 −2 13727 11010110011111 2 8 6 14008 11011010111000 2 10 2 14500 11100010100100 2 10 −2 15562 11110011001010 2 10 2 15572 11110011010100 2 10 2 15692 11110101001100 2 10 2 15718 11110101100110 2 10 4 15913 11111000101001 2 10 2 15973 11111001100101 2 10 4 15978 11111001101010 2 6 4 15979 11111001101011 2 8 6 16051 11111010110011 2 6 6 16181 11111100110101 2 6 6

[0014] TABLE 2 (n = 15) max. corr. max. corr. number bj (forward) (back) dc level 202 000000011001010 3 7 −7 332 000000101001100 3 7 −7 345 000000101011001 3 7 −5 394 000000110001010 3 7 −7 404 000000110010100 3 9 −7 405 000000110010101 3 7 −5 410 000000110011010 3 11 −5 618 000001001101010 3 7 −5 652 000001010001100 3 11 −7 664 000001010011000 3 11 −7 665 000001010011001 3 11 −5 678 000001010100110 3 7 −5 691 000001010110011 3 7 −3 710 000001011000110 3 11 −5 718 000001011001110 3 7 −3 808 000001100101000 3 11 −7 809 000001100101001 3 11 −5 810 000001100101010 3 7 −5 811 000001100101011 3 9 −3 821 000001100110101 3 7 −3 922 000001110011010 3 11 −3 1140 000010001110100 3 11 −5 1221 000010011000101 3 11 −5 1299 000010100010011 3 11 −5 1305 000010100011001 3 11 −5 1356 000010101001100 3 11 −5 1380 000010101100100 3 11 −5 1610 000011001001010 3 11 −5 1620 000011001010100 3 11 −5 1642 000011001101010 3 11 −3 1672 000011010001000 3 11 −7 2152 000100001101000 3 11 −7 2224 000100010110000 3 11 −7 2228 000100010110100 3 11 −5 2281 000100011101001 3 11 −3 2579 000101000010011 3 11 −5 2587 000101000011011 3 11 −3 2656 000101001100000 3 11 −7 2824 000101100001000 3 11 −7 3232 000110010100000 3 11 −7 3748 000111010100100 3 9 −3 3821 000111011101101 3 9 3 4188 001000001011100 3 11 −5 4305 001000011010001 3 11 −5 4419 001000101000011 3 11 −5 4449 001000101100001 3 11 −5 4792 001001010111000 3 9 −3 4874 001001100001010 3 7 −5 4944 001001101010000 3 11 −5 5079 001001111010111 3 11 3 5139 001010000010011 3 11 −5 5145 001010000011001 3 11 −5 5312 001010011000000 3 9 −7 5313 001010011000001 3 11 −5 5424 001010100110000 3 11 −5 5535 001010110011111 3 9 3 5619 001010111110011 3 11 3 5649 001011000010001 3 11 −5 5768 001011010001000 3 11 −5 5904 001011100010000 3 11 −5 6154 001100000001010 3 7 −7 6165 001100000010101 3 7 −5 6187 001100000101011 3 11 −3 6304 001100010100000 3 11 −7 6405 001100100000101 3 11 −5 6464 001100101000000 3 7 −7 6465 001100101000001 3 11 −5 6480 001100101010000 3 11 −5 6495 001100101011111 3 7 3 6645 001100111110101 3 11 3 6922 001101100001010 3 11 −3 7087 001101110101111 3 11 5 7127 001101111010111 3 11 5 7147 001101111101011 3 11 5 7428 001110100000100 3 11 −5 7867 001111010111011 3 11 5 7901 001111011011101 3 11 5 7989 001111100110101 3 11 3 8369 010000010110001 3 11 −5 8377 010000010111001 3 11 −3 8394 010000011001010 3 11 −5 8610 010000110100010 3 11 −5 8730 010001000011010 3 11 −5 8734 010001000011110 3 11 −3 8771 010001001000011 3 11 −5 8898 010001011000010 3 11 −5 9230 010010000001110 3 9 −5 9287 010010001000111 3 9 −3 9738 010011000001010 3 11 −5 10252 010100000001100 3 7 −7 10265 010100000011001 3 7 −5 10278 010100000100110 3 11 −5 10290 010100000110010 3 11 −5 10291 010100000110011 3 11 −3 10340 010100001100100 3 7 −5 10348 010100001101100 3 11 −3 10432 010100011000000 3 7 −7 10544 010100100110000 3 11 −5 10624 010100110000000 3 7 −7 10625 010100110000001 3 7 −7 10626 010100110000010 3 11 −5 10627 010100110000011 3 11 −3 10655 010100110011111 3 7 3 10848 010101001100000 3 7 −5 11040 010101100100000 3 7 −5 11056 010101100110000 3 11 −3 11070 010101100111110 3 9 3 11071 010101100111111 3 7 5 11238 010101111100110 3 7 3 11251 010101111110011 3 7 5 11298 010110000100010 3 11 −5 11456 010110011000000 3 11 −5 11488 010110011100000 3 11 −3 11518 010110011111110 3 11 5 11887 010111001101111 3 11 5 11998 010111011011110 3 11 5 12211 010111110110011 3 11 5 12217 010111110111001 3 11 5 12238 010111111001110 3 11 5 12262 010111111100110 3 11 5 12549 011000100000101 3 11 −5 12609 011000101000001 3 11 −5 12669 011000101111101 3 11 3 12704 011000110100000 3 11 −5 12810 011001000001010 3 11 −5 12929 011001010000001 3 11 −5 12960 011001010100000 3 7 −5 12991 011001010111111 3 7 5 13151 011001101011111 3 11 5 13231 011001110101111 3 11 5 13290 011001111101010 3 7 3 13291 011001111101011 3 11 5 13301 011001111110101 3 7 5 13306 011001111111010 3 11 5 13329 011010000010001 3 11 −5 13431 011010001110111 3 11 3 13727 011010110011111 3 11 5 14254 011011110101110 3 11 5 14354 011100000010010 3 9 −5 14717 011100101111101 3 11 5 14752 011100110100000 3 7 −3 14842 011100111111010 3 11 5 14971 011101001111011 3 11 5 15094 011101011110110 3 11 5 15307 011101111001011 3 11 5 15337 011101111101001 3 11 5 15394 011110000100010 3 11 −3 15547 011110010111011 3 11 5 15802 011110110111010 3 11 5 15978 011111001101010 3 9 3 15979 011111001101011 3 11 5 16051 011111010110011 3 11 5 16057 011111010111001 3 11 5 16181 011111100110101 3 9 5 16217 011111101011001 3 11 5 16282 011111110011010 3 11 5 16485 100000001100101 3 11 −5 16550 100000010100110 3 11 −5 16586 100000011001010 3 9 −5 16710 100000101000110 3 11 −5 16716 100000101001100 3 11 −5 16788 100000110010100 3 11 −5 16789 100000110010101 3 9 −3 16965 100001001000101 3 11 −5 17220 10001101000100 3 11 −5 17373 100001111011101 3 11 3 17430 100010000010110 3 11 −5 17460 100010000110100 3 11 −5 17673 100010100001001 3 11 −5 17796 100010110000100 3 11 −5 17925 100011000000101 3 11 −5 18015 100011001011111 3 7 3 18050 100011010000010 3 11 −5 18413 100011111101101 3 9 5 18513 100100001010001 3 11 −5 19040 100101001100000 3 11 −5 19336 100101110001000 3 11 −3 19438 100101111101110 3 11 5 19461 100110000000101 3 11 −5 19466 100110000001010 3 7 −5 19476 100110000010100 3 11 −5 19477 100110000010101 3 7 −3 19536 100110001010000 3 11 −5 19616 100110010100000 3 11 −5 19776 100110101000000 3 7 −5 19807 100110101011111 3 7 5 19838 100110010111110 3 11 5 19957 100110111110101 3 11 5 20063 100111001011111 3 11 5 20098 100111010000010 3 11 −3 20158 100111010111110 3 11 5 20218 100111011111010 3 11 5 20505 10100000000101 3 11 −5 20529 101000000110001 3 11 −5 20550 101000001000110 3 11 −5 20556 101000001001100 3 11 −5 20769 101000100100001 3 11 −5 20880 101000110010000 3 11 −5 21249 101001100000001 3 11 −5 21279 101001100011111 3 11 3 21311 101001100111111 3 11 5 21469 101001111011101 3 11 5 21516 101010000001100 3 7 −5 21529 101010000011001 3 7 −3 21696 101010011000000 3 7 −5 21697 101010011000001 3 9 −3 21711 101010011001111 3 11 3 21727 101010011011111 3 7 5 21919 101010110011111 3 7 5 22112 101011001100000 3 7 −3 22140 101011001111100 3 11 3 22141 101011001111101 3 11 5 22142 101011001111110 3 9 5 22143 101011001111111 3 7 7 22223 101011011001111 3 11 5 22335 101011100111111 3 7 7 22419 101011110010011 3 11 3 22427 101011110011011 3 7 5 22476 101011111001100 3 11 3 22477 101011111001101 3 11 5 22489 101011111011001 3 11 5 22502 10101111110110 3 7 5 22515 101011111110011 3 7 7 23029 101100111110101 3 11 5 23480 101101110111000 3 9 3 23537 101101111110001 3 9 5 23869 101110100111101 3 11 5 23996 101110110111100 3 11 5 24033 101110111100001 3 11 3 24037 101110111100101 3 11 5 24157 101111001011101 3 11 5 24373 101111100110101 3 11 5 24390 101111101000110 3 11 3 24398 101111101001110 3 11 5 24778 110000011001010 3 11 −3 24866 110000100100010 3 11 −5 24900 110000101000100 3 11 −5 25339 110001011111011 3 11 5 25620 110010000010100 3 11 −5 25640 110010000101000 3 11 −5 25680 110010001010000 3 11 −5 25845 110010011110101 3 11 3 26122 110011000001010 3 11 −3 26272 110011010100000 3 7 −3 26287 110011010101111 3 11 5 26302 110011010111110 3 11 5 26303 110011010111111 3 7 7 26362 110011011111010 3 11 5 26463 110011101011111 3 11 7 26580 110011111010100 3 11 3 26602 110011111101010 3 7 5 26613 110011111110101 3 7 7 26863 110100011101111 3 11 5 26999 110100101110111 3 11 5 27118 110100111101110 3 11 5 27148 110101000001100 3 11 −3 27232 110101001100000 3 9 −3 27343 110101011001111 3 11 5 27454 110101100111110 3 11 5 27455 110101100111111 3 9 7 27622 110101111100110 3 11 5 27628 110101111101100 3 11 5 27688 110110000101000 3 11 −3 27823 110110010101111 3 11 5 27893 110110011110101 3 7 5 27975 110110101000111 3 9 3 28318 110111010011110 3 11 5 28348 110111010111100 3 11 5 28462 110111100101110 3 11 5 28579 110111110100011 3 11 5 28946 111000100010010 3 9 −3 29019 111000101011011 3 9 3 29535 111001101011111 3 11 7 29943 111010011110111 3 11 7 30111 111010110011111 3 11 7 30180 111010111100100 3 11 3 30188 111010111101100 3 11 5 30486 111011100010110 3 11 3 30539 111011101001011 3 11 5 30543 111011101001111 3 11 7 30615 111011110010111 3 11 7 31095 111100101110111 3 11 7 31125 111100110010101 3 11 3 31147 111100110101011 3 11 5 31157 111100110110101 3 11 5 31387 111101010011011 3 11 5 31411 111101010110011 3 11 5 31462 111101011100110 3 11 5 31468 111101011101100 3 11 5 31546 111101100111010 3 11 5 31627 111101110001011 3 11 5 31845 111110001100101 3 11 3 31946 111110011001010 3 7 3 31956 111110011010100 3 9 3 31957 111110011010101 3 7 5 31958 111110011010110 3 11 5 31959 111110011010111 3 11 7 32049 111110100110001 3 7 3 32057 111110100111001 3 11 5 32076 111110101001100 3 7 3 32089 111110101011001 3 7 5 32102 111110101100110 3 11 5 32103 111110101100111 3 11 7 32115 111110101110011 3 11 7 32149 111110110010101 3 7 5 32357 111111001100101 3 11 5 32362 111111001101010 3 7 5 32363 111111001101011 3 9 7 32373 111111001110101 3 7 7 32422 111111010100110 3 7 5 32435 111111010110011 3 7 7 32565 111111100110101 3 7 7

[0015] TABLE 3 (n = 17) max. corr. max. corr. number bj (forward) (back) dc level 2931 00000101101110011 3 9 −1 3253 00000110010110101 3 9 −3 3286 00000110011010110 3 9 −3 3685 00000111001100101 3 13 −3 3693 00000111001101101 3 11 −1 3893 00000111100110101 3 9 −1 3929 00000111101011001 3 11 −1 5555 00001010110110011 3 9 −1 5838 00001011011001110 3 11 −1 6443 00001100100101011 3 9 −3 6581 00001100110110101 3 13 −1 6775 00001101001110111 3 13 1 6877 00001101011011101 3 9 1 7386 00001110011011010 3 11 −1 7642 00001110111011010 3 9 1 7859 00001111010110011 3 9 1 7901 00001111011011101 3 11 3 7917 00001111011101101 3 13 3 9039 00010001101001111 3 13 −1 9125 00010001110100101 3 11 −3 9171 00010001111010011 3 9 −1 9189 00010001111100101 3 9 −1 11111 00010101101100111 3 9 1 12121 00010111101011001 3 9 1 12887 00011001001010111 3 9 −1 14773 00011100110110101 3 11 1 15269 00011101110100101 3 13 1 15284 00011101110110100 3 9 1 15716 00011110101100100 3 11 −1 15718 00011110101100110 3 9 1 16217 00011111101011001 3 9 3 17596 00100010010111100 3 13 −3 18110 00100011010111110 3 9 1 19499 00100110000101011 3 13 −3 19578 00100110001111010 3 11 −1 19832 00100110101111000 3 11 −1 20590 00101000001101110 3 9 −3 20716 00101000011101100 3 13 −3 21054 00101001000111110 3 13 −1 21310 00101001100111110 3 9 1 22223 00101011011001111 3 9 3 22427 00101011110011011 3 13 3 23075 00101101000100011 3 13 −3 23480 00101101110111000 3 9 1 24749 00110000010101101 3 9 −3 24757 00110000010110101 3 11 −3 24765 00110000010111101 3 9 −1 25183 00110001001011111 3 9 1 25775 00110010010101111 3 9 1 25871 00110010100001111 3 9 −1 26578 00110011111010010 3 9 1 26743 00110100001110111 3 9 1 28180 00110111000010100 3 13 −3 30539 00111011101001011 3 13 3 31300 00111101001000100 3 13 −3 31946 00111110011001010 3 9 1 31958 00111110011010110 3 13 3 33229 01000000111001101 3 9 −3 34291 01000010111110011 3 9 1 35087 01000100100001111 3 11 −3 35151 01000100101001111 3 9 −1 35193 01000100101111001 3 9 −1 35301 01000100111100101 3 13 −1 37135 01001000100001111 3 13 −3 37150 01001000100011110 3 9 −3 37663 01001001100011111 3 11 1 38387 01001010111110011 3 9 3 38860 01001011111001100 3 9 1 38862 01001011111001110 3 11 3 39165 01001100011111101 3 9 3 41433 01010000111011001 3 9 −1 42183 01010010011000111 3 11 −1 42191 01010010011001111 3 13 1 42399 01010010110011111 3 9 3 42483 01010010111110011 3 11 3 42527 01010011000011111 3 9 1 42620 01010011001111100 3 9 1 45175 01011000001110111 3 9 1 45277 01011000011011101 3 13 1 45855 01011001100011111 3 13 3 45953 01011001110000001 3 9 −3 46105 01011010000011001 3 9 −3 46151 010110100001000111 3 13 −1 46199 01011010001110111 3 11 3 46704 01011011001110000 3 11 −1 46960 01011011101110000 3 9 1 48228 01011110001100100 3 11 −1 48921 01011111100011001 3 9 3 49885 01100001011011101 3 9 1 50366 01100010010111110 3 13 1 51445 01100100011110101 3 9 1 51719 01100101000000111 3 9 −3 51735 01100101000010111 3 9 −1 51743 01100101000011111 3 11 1 52600 01100110101111000 3 9 1 52741 01100111000000101 3 9 −3 53157 01100111110100101 3 9 3 53486 01101000011101110 3 13 1 54880 01101011001100000 3 9 −3 54908 01101011001111100 3 13 3 56801 01101110111100001 3 13 3 59009 01110011010000001 3 13 −3 59088 01110011011010000 3 11 −1 59346 01110011111010010 3 11 3 60436 01110110000010100 3 9 −3 60950 01110111000010110 3 13 1 61577 01111000010001001 3 13 −3 61714 01111000100010010 3 9 −3 63636 01111100010010100 3 13 −1 63892 01111100110010100 3 9 1 64070 01111101001000110 3 13 1 64196 01111110001100101 3 9 1 64613 01111110001100101 3 9 3 64817 01111110100110001 3 13 3 66254 10000001011001110 3 13 −3 66458 10000001110011010 3 9 −3 66875 10000010100111011 3 9 −1 67001 10000010110111001 3 13 −1 67179 10000011001101011 3 9 −1 67435 10000011101101011 3 13 1 69357 10000111011101101 3 9 3 69494 10000111101110110 3 13 3 70121 10001000111101001 3 13 −1 70635 10001001111101011 3 9 3 71725 10001100000101101 3 11 −3 71983 10001100100101111 3 11 1 72062 10001100101111110 3 13 3 74270 10010001000011110 3 13 −3 76163 10010100110000011 3 13 −3 76191 10010100110011111 3 9 3 77585 10010111100010001 3 13 −1 77914 10011000001011010 3 9 −3 78330 10011000111111010 3 9 3 78471 10011001010000111 3 9 −1 79328 10011010111100000 3 11 −1 79336 10011010111101000 3 9 1 79352 10011010111111000 3 9 3 79626 10011011100001010 3 9 −1 80705 10011101101000001 3 13 −1 81186 10011110100100010 3 9 −1 82150 10100000011100110 3 9 −3 82843 10100001110011011 3 11 1 84111 10100100010001111 3 9 −1 84367 10100100110001111 3 11 1 84872 10100101110001000 3 11 −3 84920 10100101110111000 3 13 1 84966 10100101111100110 3 9 3 85118 10100110001111110 3 9 3 85216 10100110011100000 3 13 −3 85794 10100111100100010 3 13 −1 85896 10100111110001000 3 9 −1 88451 10101100110000011 3 9 −1 88544 10101100111100000 3 9 −1 88588 10101101000001100 3 11 −3 88672 10101101001100000 3 9 −3 88880 10101101100110000 3 13 −1 88888 10101101100111000 3 11 1 89638 10101111000100110 3 9 1 91906 10110011100000010 3 9 −3 92209 10110100000110001 3 11 −3 92211 10110100000110011 3 9 −1 92684 10110101000001100 3 9 −3 93408 10110110011100000 3 11 −1 93921 10110111011100001 3 9 3 93936 10110111011110000 3 13 3 95770 10111011000011010 3 13 1 95878 10111011010000110 3 9 1 95920 10111011010110000 3 9 1 95984 10111011011110000 3 11 3 96780 10111101000001100 3 9 −1 97842 10111111000110010 3 9 3 99113 11000001100101001 3 13 −3 99125 11000001100110101 3 9 −1 99771 11000010110111011 3 13 3 100532 11000100010110100 3 13 −3 102891 11001000111101011 3 13 3 104328 11001011110001000 3 9 −1 104493 11001100000101101 3 9 −1 105200 11001101011110000 3 9 1 105296 11001101101010000 3 9 −1 105888 11001110110100000 3 9 −1 106306 11001111101000010 3 9 1 106314 11001111101001010 3 11 3 106322 11001111101010010 3 9 3 107591 11010010001000111 3 9 −1 107996 11010010111011100 3 13 3 108644 11010100001100100 3 13 −3 108848 11010100100110000 3 9 −3 109761 11010110011000001 3 9 −1 110017 11010110111000001 3 13 1 110355 11010111100010011 3 13 3 110481 11010111110010001 3 9 3 111239 11011001010000111 3 11 1 111493 11011001110000101 3 11 1 111572 11011001111010100 3 13 3 112961 11011100101000001 3 9 −1 113475 11011101101000011 3 13 3 114854 11100000010100110 3 9 −3 115353 11100001010011001 3 9 −1 115355 11100001010011011 3 11 1 115787 11100010001001011 3 9 −1 115802 11100010001011010 3 13 −1 116298 11100011001001010 3 11 −1 118184 11100110110101000 3 9 1 118950 11101000010100110 3 9 −1 119960 11101010010011000 3 9 −1 121882 11101110000011010 3 9 1 121900 11101110000101100 3 9 1 121946 11101110001011010 3 11 3 122032 11101110010110000 3 13 1 123154 11110000100010010 3 13 −3 123170 11110000100100010 3 11 −3 123212 11110000101001100 3 9 −1 123429 11110001000100101 3 9 −1 123685 11110001100100101 3 11 1 124194 11110010100100010 3 9 −1 124296 11110010110001000 3 13 −1 124490 11110011001001010 3 13 1 124628 11110011011010100 3 9 3 125233 11110100100110001 3 11 1 125516 11110101001001100 3 9 1 127142 11111000010100110 3 11 1 127178 11111000011001010 3 9 1 127378 11111000110010010 3 11 1 127386 11111000110011010 3 13 3 127785 11111001100101001 3 9 3 127818 11111001101001010 3 9 3 128140 11111010010001100 3 9 1

[0016] TABLE 4 (n = 19) max. corr. max. corr. number bj (forward) (back) dc level 3241 0000000110010101001 3 15 −7 10342 0000010100001100110 3 15 −7 26897 0000110100100010001 3 15 −7 28946 0000111000100010010 3 7 −7 33705 0001000001110101001 3 11 −5 34996 0001000100010110100 3 11 −7 37560 0001001001010111000 3 15 −5 59976 0001110101001001000 3 15 −5 61146 0001110111011011010 3 7 3 64429 0001111101110101101 3 9 5 66385 0010000001101010001 3 11 −7 70117 0010001000111100101 3 15 −3 74076 0010010000101011100 3 15 −5 86785 0010101001100000001 3 15 −7 92296 0010110100010001000 3 11 −7 95265 0010111010000100001 3 11 −5 97651 0010111110101110011 3 15 5 100875 0011000101000001011 3 15 −5 104970 0011001101000001010 3 15 −5 119844 0011101010000100100 3 15 −5 129885 0011111101101011101 3 11 7 130261 0011111110011010101 3 15 5 139806 0100010001000011110 3 11 −5 141571 0100010100100000011 3 11 −7 145426 0100011100000010010 3 15 −7 147682 0100100000011100010 3 15 −7 148592 0100100010001110000 3 7 −7 151815 0100101000100000111 3 9 −5 164556 0101000001011001100 3 15 −5 173571 0101010011000000011 3 15 −5 181179 0101100001110111011 3 15 3 187320 0101101101110111000 3 7 3 204961 0110010000010100001 3 15 −7 209056 0110011000010100000 3 15 −7 217591 0110101000111110111 3 11 5 218751 0110101011001111111 3 15 7 229006 0110111111010001110 3 15 5 232438 0111000101111110110 3 15 5 240123 0111010100111111011 3 11 7 244559 0111011101101001111 3 15 7 246306 0111100001000100010 3 11 −5 251865 0111101011111011001 3 15 7 253579 0111101111010001011 3 11 5 260523 0111111100110101011 3 15 7 263764 1000000011001010100 3 15 −7 270708 1000010000101110100 3 11 −5 272422 1000010100000100110 3 15 −7 277981 1000011110111011101 3 11 5 279728 1000100010010110000 3 15 −7 284164 1000101011000000100 3 11 −7 291849 1000111010000001001 3 15 −5 295281 1001000000101110001 3 15 −5 305536 1001010100110000000 3 15 −7 306696 1001010111000001000 3 11 −5 315231 1001100111101011111 3 15 7 319326 1001101111101011110 3 15 7 336967 1010010010001000111 3 7 −3 343108 1010011110001000100 3 15 −3 350716 1010101100111111100 3 15 5 359731 1010111110100110011 3 15 5 372472 1011010111011111000 3 9 5 375695 1011011101110001111 3 7 7 376605 1011011111100011101 3 15 7 378861 1011100011111101101 3 15 7 382716 1011101011011111100 3 11 7 384481 1011101110111100001 3 11 5 394026 1100000001100101010 3 15 −5 394402 1100000010010100010 3 11 −7 404443 1100010101111011011 3 15 5 419317 1100110010111110101 3 15 5 423412 1100111010111110100 3 15 5 426636 1101000001010001100 3 15 −5 429022 1101000101111011110 3 11 5 431991 1101001011101110111 3 11 7 437502 1101010110011111110 3 15 7 450211 1101101111010100011 3 15 5 454170 1101110111000011010 3 15 3 457902 1101111110010101110 3 11 7 459858 1110000010001010010 3 9 −5 463141 1110001000100100101 3 7 −3 464311 1110001010110110111 3 15 5 486727 1110110110101000111 3 15 5 489291 1110111011101001011 3 11 7 490582 1110111110001010110 3 11 5 495341 1111000111011101101 3 7 7 497390 1111001011011101110 3 15 7 513945 1111101011110011001 3 15 7 521046 1111111001101010110 3 15 7

[0017] TABLE 5 (n = 21) max. corr. max. corr. dc number bj (forward) (backward) level 14773 000000011100110110101 3 15 −3 23865 000000101110100111001 3 13 −3 29546 000000111001101101010 3 11 −3 31157 000000111100110110101 3 11 −1 47731 000001011101001110011 3 15 −1 55754 000001101100111001010 3 11 −3 59029 000001110011010010101 3 11 −3 59093 000001110011011010101 3 15 −1 59245 000001110011101101101 3 15 1 60249 000001110101101011001 3 15 −1 62294 000001111001101010110 3 17 −1 81210 000010011110100111010 3 15 −1 89708 000010101111001101100 3 21 −1 183260 000101100101111011100 3 17 1 231861 000111000100110110101 3 15 −1 248388 000111100101001000100 3 13 −5 255570 000111110011001010010 3 13 −1 257750 000111110111011010110 3 13 5 276270 001000011011100101110 3 11 −1 281208 001000100101001111000 3 13 −5 281571 001000100101111100011 3 13 −1 331699 001010000111110110011 3 15 1 336446 001010010001000111110 3 13 −3 397237 001100000111110110101 3 15 1 406623 001100011010001011111 3 15 1 410091 001100100000111101011 3 15 −1 442901 001101100001000010101 3 13 −5 446288 001101100111101010000 3 21 −1 459446 001110000001010110110 3 11 −3 460219 001110000010110111011 3 13 1 490088 001110111101001101000 3 17 1 509010 001111100010001010010 3 13 −3 521034 001111111001101001010 3 17 3 521046 001111111001101010110 3 17 5 549238 010000110000101110110 3 17 −3 598815 010010010001100011111 3 15 −1 607356 010010100010001111100 3 13 −3 609528 010010100110011111000 3 13 −1 614638 010010110000011101110 3 13 −1 659673 010100001000011011001 3 15 −5 672243 010100100000111110011 3 15 −1 674879 010100100110000111111 3 11 1 674943 010100100110001111111 3 15 3 675271 010100100110111000111 3 15 1 678396 010100101100111111100 3 17 3 684896 010100111001101100000 3 11 −3 693023 010101001001100011111 3 15 1 709407 010101101001100011111 3 11 3 711104 010101101100111000000 3 11 −3 718739 010101111011110010011 3 13 5 759696 010111001011110010000 3 15 −1 783558 010111111010011000110 3 21 3 812538 011000110010111111010 3 21 3 813247 011000110100010111111 3 13 3 827125 011001001111011110101 3 15 5 828703 011001010010100011111 3 15 1 846657 011001110101101000001 3 15 −1 874976 011010101100111100000 3 17 −1 875004 011010101100111111100 3 17 5 880376 011010110111011111000 3 13 5 895004 011011010100000011100 3 11 −3 896785 011011010111100010001 3 13 1 905410 011011101000011000010 3 17 −3 957828 011101001110110000100 3 11 −1 975058 011101110000011010010 3 13 −1 975177 011101110000101001001 3 13 −1 1018004 011111000100010010100 3 13 −3 1025305 011111010010100011001 3 15 1 1071846 100000101101011100110 3 15 −1 1079147 100000111011101101011 3 13 3 1121974 100010001111010110110 3 13 1 1122093 100010001111100101101 3 13 1 1139323 100010110001001111011 3 11 1 1191741 100100010111100111101 3 17 3 1200366 100100101000011101110 3 13 −1 1202147 100100101011111100011 3 11 3 1216775 100101001000100000111 3 13 −5 1222147 100101010011000000011 3 17 −5 1222175 100101010011000011111 3 17 1 1250494 100110001010010111110 3 15 1 1268448 100110101101011100000 3 15 −1 1270026 100110110000100001010 3 15 −5 1283904 100111001011101000000 3 13 −3 1284613 100111001101000000101 3 21 −3 1313593 101000000101100111001 3 21 −3 1337455 101000110100001101111 3 15 1 1378412 101010000100001101100 3 13 −5 1386047 101010010011000111111 3 11 3 1387744 101010010110011100000 3 11 −3 1404128 101010110110011100000 3 15 −1 1412255 101011000110010011111 3 11 3 1418755 101011010011000000011 3 17 −3 1421880 101011011001000111000 3 15 −1 1422208 101011011001110000000 3 15 −3 1422272 101011011001111000000 3 11 −1 1424908 101011011111000001100 3 15 1 1437478 101011110111100100110 3 15 5 1482513 101101001111100010001 3 13 1 1487623 101101011001100000111 3 13 1 1489795 101101011101110000011 3 13 3 1498336 101101101110011100000 3 15 1 1547913 101111001111010001001 3 17 3 1576105 110000000110010101001 3 17 −5 1576117 110000000110010110101 3 17 3 1588141 110000011101110101101 3 13 3 1607063 110001000010110010111 3 17 −1 1636932 110001111101001000100 3 13 −1 1637705 110001111110101001001 3 11 3 1650863 110010011000010101111 3 21 1 1654250 110010011110111101010 3 13 5 1687060 110011011111000010100 3 15 1 1690528 110011100101110100000 3 15 −1 1699914 110011111000001001010 3 15 −1 1760705 110101101110111000001 3 13 3 1765452 110101111000001001100 3 15 −1 1815580 110111011010000011100 3 13 1 1815943 110111011010110000111 3 13 5 1820881 110111100100011010001 3 11 1 1839401 111000001000100101001 3 13 −5 1841581 111000001100110101101 3 13 1 1848763 111000011010110111011 3 13 5 1865290 111000111011001001010 3 15 1 1913891 111010011010000100011 3 17 −1 2007443 111101010000110010011 3 21 1 2015941 111101100001011000101 3 15 1 2034857 111110000110010101001 3 17 1 2036902 111110001010010100110 3 15 1 2037906 111110001100010010010 3 15 −1 2038058 111110001100100101010 3 15 1 2038122 111110001100101101010 3 11 3 2041397 111110010011000110101 3 11 3 2049420 111110100010110001100 3 15 1 2065994 111111000011001001010 3 11 1 2067605 111111000110010010101 3 11 3 2073286 111111010001011000110 3 13 3 2082378 111111100011001001010 3 15 3

[0018] TABLE 6 (n = 23) max. corr. max. corr. (back- dc number bj (forward) ward) level 29362 00000000111001010110010 3 15 −7 75541 00000010010011100010101 3 11 −7 86422 00000010101000110010110 3 15 −7 115861 00000011100010010010101 3 11 −7 271825 00001000010010111010001 3 11 −7 272197 00001000010011101000101 3 15 −7 333508 00001010001011011000100 3 11 −7 345892 00001010100011100100100 3 15 −7 463141 00001110001000100100101 3 11 −7 476197 00001110100010000100101 3 11 −7 496708 00001111001010001000100 3 15 −7 543651 00010000100101110100011 3 11 −5 789930 00011000000110110101010 3 15 −5 1031085 00011111011101110101101 3 11 7 1082833 00100001000010111010001 3 11 −7 1083205 00100001000011101000101 3 11 −7 1116052 00100010000011110010100 3 11 −7 1119472 00100010001010011110000 3 15 −7 1142932 00100010111000010010100 3 11 −7 1160272 00100011011010001010000 3 11 −7 1181041 00100100000010101110001 3 15 −7 1208656 00100100111000101010000 3 15 −7 1345348 00101001000011101000100 3 11 −7 1372228 00101001111000001000100 3 11 −7 1524769 00101110100010000100001 3 11 −7 1906423 00111010001011011110111 3 11 5 1994730 00111100110111111101010 3 15 7 2285833 01000101110000100001001 3 11 −7 2429191 01001010001000100000111 3 11 −7 2533120 01001101010011100000000 3 15 −7 2807832 01010101101100000011000 3 15 −5 2846271 01010110110111000111111 3 11 7 2854335 01010111000110110111111 3 11 7 2882364 01010111111101100111100 3 15 7 2965230 01011010011111011101110 3 15 7 2997135 01011011011101110001111 3 11 7 3010191 01011011110111010001111 3 11 7 3050991 01011101000110111101111 3 15 7 3051387 01011101000111101111011 3 11 7 3128430 01011111011110001101110 3 11 7 3141006 01011111110110110001110 3 15 7 3458368 01101001100010101000000 3 15 −7 3652701 01101111011110001011101 3 11 7 3715035 01110001010111111011011 3 15 7 3726330 01110001101101111111010 3 15 7 3812847 0111010001011011110111 3 11 7 3813243 01110100010111101111011 3 11 7 3874554 01110110001111011111010 3 11 7 3910974 01110111010110100111110 3 11 7 3915354 01110111011111001011010 3 15 7 3922494 01110111101101000111110 3 11 7 4058763 01111011110111010001011 3 11 7 4074990 01111100010110111101110 3 11 7 4086510 01111100101101011101110 3 11 7 4302097 10000011010010100010001 3 11 −7 4313617 10000011101001000010001 3 11 −7 4329844 10000100001000101110100 3 11 −7 4466113 10001000010010111000001 3 11 −7 4473253 10001000100000110100101 3 15 −7 4477633 10001000101001011000001 3 11 −7 4514053 10001001110000100000101 3 11 −7 4575364 1000101110100001000010 3 11 −7 4575760 10001011101001000010000 3 11 −7 4662277 10001110010010000000101 3 15 −7 4673572 10001110101000000100100 3 15 −7 4735906 10010000100001110100010 3 11 −7 4930239 10010110011101010111111 3 15 7 5247601 10100000001001001110001 3 15 −7 5260177 10100000100001110010001 3 11 −7 5337220 10100010111000010000100 3 11 −7 5337616 10100010111001000010000 3 15 −7 5378416 10100100001000101110000 3 11 −7 5391472 10100100100010001110000 3 11 −7 5423377 10100101100000100010001 3 15 −7 5506243 10101000000010011000011 3 15 −7 5534272 1010100011100100100000 3 11 −7 5542336 1010100100100011100000 3 11 −7 5580775 10101010010011111100111 3 15 5 5855487 10110010101100011111111 3 15 7 5959416 10110101110111011111000 3 11 7 6102774 10111010001111011110110 3 11 7 6393877 11000011001000000010101 3 15 −7 6482184 11000101110100100001000 3 11 −5 6863838 11010001011101111011110 3 11 7 7016379 11010110000111110111011 3 11 7 7043259 11010110111100010111011 3 11 7 7179951 11011011000111010101111 3 15 7 7207566 11011011111101010001110 3 15 7 7228335 11011100100101110101111 3 11 7 7245675 11011101000111101101011 3 11 7 7269135 11011101110101100001111 3 15 7 7272555 11011101111100001101011 3 11 7 7305402 11011110111100010111010 3 11 7 7305774 11011110111101000101110 3 11 7 7357522 11100000100010001010010 3 11 −7 7598677 11100111111001001010101 3 15 5 7844956 11101111011010001011100 3 11 5 7891899 11110000110101110111011 3 15 7 7912410 11110001011101111011010 3 11 7 7925466 11110001110111011011010 3 11 7 8042715 11110101011100011011011 3 15 7 8055099 11110101110100100111011 3 11 7 8116410 11110111101100010111010 3 15 7 8116782 11110111101101000101110 3 11 7 8272746 11111100011101101101010 3 11 7 8302185 11111101010111001101001 3 15 7 8313066 11111101101100011101010 3 11 7 8359245 11111111000110101001101 3 15 7

[0019] TABLE 7 (n = 25) max. corr. max. corr. (back- dc number bj (forward) ward) level 381638 0000001011101001011000110 3 11 −5 446005 0000001101100111000110101 3 13 −3 465770 0000001110001101101101010 3 13 −3 473782 000000111001110101011010 3 13 −1 897941 0000011011011001110010101 3 13 −1 947565 0000011100111010101101101 3 15 1 2054758 000011111010110100110010 3 13 1 2054886 0000111110101101011100110 3 11 3 3275446 000110001111110101011010 3 17 3 3672501 0001110000000100110110101 3 15 −5 3672793 0001110000000101011011001 3 13 −5 4808590 0010010010101111110001110 3 15 1 4945678 0010010110111011100001110 3 13 1 6550893 0011000111111010101101101 3 13 5 6561626 0011001000001111101011010 3 11 −1 6692698 0011001100001111101011010 3 13 1 7093738 0011011000011110111101010 3 11 3 7345002 0011100000001001101101010 3 13 −5 7345586 0011100000001010101101010 3 17 −5 9609331 0100100101010000001110011 3 13 −5 9610015 0100100101010001100011111 3 15 −1 10178588 0100110110101000000011100 3 17 −5 10805191 0101001001101111111000111 3 15 5 10950975 0101001110001100100111111 3 13 3 11297951 0101011000110010010011111 3 13 1 11374620 0101011011001000000011100 3 13 −5 11383232 0101011011011000111000000 3 13 −3 11499628 0101011110111100001101100 3 11 3 11923532 0101101011111000001001100 3 11 −1 11923660 0101101011111000011001100 3 13 1 13014848 0110001101001011101000000 3 11 −5 13197255 0110010010101111111000111 3 13 5 13415920 0110011001011010111110000 3 13 1 13546992 0110011101011010111110000 3 11 3 14334400 0110110101011100111000000 3 13 −1 14335768 0110110101011111100011000 3 17 3 14802340 0111000011101110110100100 3 13 1 14939428 0111000111111010100100100 3 15 1 18615003 1000111000000101011011011 3 15 −1 18752091 1000111100010001001011011 3 13 −1 19218663 1001001010100000011100111 3 17 −3 19220031 1001001010100011000111111 3 13 1 20007439 1001100010100101000001111 3 11 −3 2013851 1001100110100101000001111 3 13 −1 20357176 1001101101010000000111000 3 13 −5 20539583 1001110010110100010111111 3 11 5 21630771 1010010100000111100110011 3 13 −1 21630899 1010010100000111110110011 3 11 1 22054803 1010100001000011110010011 3 11 −3 22171199 1010100100100111000111111 3 13 3 22179811 1010100100110111111100011 3 13 5 22256480 1010100111001101101100000 3 13 −1 22603456 1010110001110011011000000 3 13 −3 22749240 1010110110010000000111000 3 15 −5 23375843 1011001001010111111100011 3 17 5 23944416 1011011010101110011100000 3 15 1 23945100 1011011010101111110001100 3 13 5 26208845 1100011111110101001001101 3 17 5 26209429 1100011111110110010010101 3 13 5 26460693 1100100111100001000010101 3 11 −3 26861733 1100110011110000010100101 3 13 −1 26992805 1100110111110000010100101 3 11 1 27003538 1100111000000101010010010 3 13 −5 28608753 1101101001000100011110001 3 13 −1 28745841 110110110101000001110001 3 15 −1 29881638 1110001111111010100100110 3 13 5 29881930 1110001111111011001001010 3 15 5 30278985 1110011100000010101001001 3 17 −3 31499545 1111000001010010100011001 3 11 −3 31499673 1111000001010010110011001 3 13 −1 32606866 1111100011000101010010010 3 15 −1 32656490 1111100100100110001101010 3 13 1 33080649 1111110001100010101001001 3 13 1 33088661 1111110001110010010010101 3 13 3 33108426 1111110010011000111001010 3 13 3 33172793 1111110100010110100111001 3 11 5

[0020] TABLE 8 (n = 27) max. max. corr. corr. (for- (back- dc number bj ward) ward) level 930410 000000011100011001001101010 3 15 −7 1624362 000000110001100100100101010 3 15 −9 1860757 000000111000110010010010101 3 15 −7 15798573 000111100010001000100101101 3 11 −5 39566215 010010110111011101110000111 3 11 5 44341440 010101001001001100011000000 3 15 −9 45245312 010101100100110001110000000 3 15 −7 45534783 010101101101100111000111111 3 15 7

[0021] TABLE 9 (n = 29) max. corr. max. number bj (forward) corr. (backward) dc level 11687143 00000101100100101010011100111 3 15 −3 20815162 00001001111011001110100111010 3 15 1 29650650 00001110001000110111011011010 3 17 −1 52082271 00011000110101011011001011111 3 15 3 52401586 00011000111111100101011011010 3 15 1 52417970 00011000011111101010110110010 3 11 3 69590574 00100001001011101111000101110 3 13 1 70752046 00100001101111001011100101110 3 19 1 79132430 00100101101110111011100001110 3 15 3 162536693 01001101100000001110011110101 3 15 −1 162873112 01001101101010011111100011000 3 15 1 162889496 01001101101010111111100011000 3 11 3 169410125 01010000110001111111001001101 3 15 1 191808624 01011011011101100010001110000 3 17 −1 194459536 01011100101110011011110010000 3 15 1 236838308 01110000111011101110110100100 3 15 3 244282500 01110100011110111010010000100 3 19 −1 245185924 01110100111010011110110000100 3 19 1

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF DRAWINGS

[0022]FIG. 1 is a system block diagram of a spread spectrum communication device showing a first application example of the present invention;

[0023]FIG. 2 is a diagram illustrating a signal code sequence;

[0024]FIG. 3 is a system block diagram of a part of a communication device showing a second application example of the present invention;

[0025]FIG. 4 shows a surface acoustic wave device using a second application example of the present invention;

[0026]FIG. 5 is a system block diagram of a spread spectrum communication device showing a third application example of the present invention;

[0027]FIG. 6 shows a code sequence used in the third application example of the present invention;

[0028]FIG. 7 shows a matched signal used in the third application example of the present invention;

[0029]FIG. 8 shows the frequency response of a matched filter used in the third application example of the present invention;

[0030]FIG. 9 shows a conventional Barker code (13 chips);

[0031]FIG. 10 shows a matched signal in the case where the conventional Barker code (13 chips) is used;

[0032]FIG. 11 shows the frequency response of a matched filter in the case where the conventional Barker code (13 chips) is used;

[0033]FIG. 12 shows tap coefficients of a matched filter using a fourth application example of the present invention;

[0034]FIG. 13 shows a matched signal used in the fourth application example of the present invention;

[0035]FIG. 14 shows tap coefficients of a matched filter using a fifth application example of the present invention;

[0036]FIG. 15 shows a matched signal used in the fifth application example of the present invention;

[0037]FIG. 16 is a system block diagram of a spread spectrum communication device showing a sixth application example of the present invention;

[0038]FIG. 17 is a system block diagram of a part of a communication device showing a seventh application example of the present invention;

[0039]FIG. 18 is a system block diagram of a part of a communication device showing an eighth application example of the present invention;

[0040]FIG. 19 is a system block diagram of a part of a communication device showing a ninth application example of the present invention;

[0041]FIG. 20 is a system block diagram of a part of a communication device showing a tenth application example of the present invention;

[0042]FIG. 21 is a system block diagram of a part of a communication device showing an eleventh application example of the present invention; and

[0043]FIG. 22 shows a communication system using a device shown in a twelfth application example of the present invention.

BEST MODE FOR CARRYING OUT THE INVENTION

[0044] Hereafter, modes for carrying out the present invention will be described by referring to FIGS. 1 through 23.

[0045] However, some modes hereafter described are shown in order to explain application examples for carrying out the present invention. Modes for carrying out the present invention are never limited to application examples described here.

[0046]FIG. 1 is a diagram schematically showing a spread spectrum communication device to which the present invention has been applied. An information signal is inputted from an input terminal 1, multiplied in a mixer 2 by a signal supplied from a pseudo noise code generator 3, furthermore multiplied in a mixer 4 by a carrier supplied from an oscillator 5, amplified in an amplifier 6, and outputted from an antenna 7. Here, a code shown in TABLES 1 through 9 was used as the pseudo noise code.

[0047] In a receiving system, a signal inputted from the antenna 7 is amplified in an amplifier 8, demodulated, converted to a digital signal in a square wave output circuit 9, and taken out from an output terminal 10 as an information signal. Here, a code similar to the above described code was used as a reference code for demodulating the information. (It coincides with the pseudo noise code of the transmitter.) FIG. 2 is a diagram showing a signal code sequence. In the case of the synchronous detection system, a signal code sequence Sk corresponds to 1 and 0 of the information code, and it is represented as $\begin{matrix} {S_{k} = \left\lbrack \begin{matrix} {m_{{mod}\quad {({k/n})}}\left( {{data} = {1\quad {or}\quad 0}} \right)} \\ {- {m_{{mod}\quad {({k/n})}}\left( {{data} = {0\quad {or}\quad 1}} \right)}} \end{matrix} \right.} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 1} \right) \end{matrix}$

[0048] where mj (j=1, 2, . . . , n; n=code length) corresponds to a pseudo noise code bj shown in TABLES 1 through 9, and it is represented by the following equation. $\begin{matrix} {m_{j} = \left\lbrack \begin{matrix} {1\quad \left( {b_{j} = 1} \right)} \\ {{- 1}\quad \left( {b_{j} = 0} \right)} \end{matrix} \right.} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 2} \right) \end{matrix}$

[0049] In the same way, in the case of the delay detection system, the signal code sequence Sk is represented by the following equation. $\begin{matrix} {S_{k} = \left\lbrack \begin{matrix} {m_{{mod}\quad {({k/n})}}{S_{k - 1}\left( {{data} = {1\quad {or}\quad 0}} \right)}} \\ {{- m_{{mod}\quad {({k/n})}}}{S_{k - 1}\left( {{data} = {0\quad {or}\quad 1}} \right)}} \end{matrix} \right.} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 3} \right) \end{matrix}$

[0050] Denoting a reference code of the receiving side by Mj, a correlation coefficient Ok is represented by the following equation. $\begin{matrix} {O_{k} = {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{n}{S_{k + j - 1}M_{j}}}} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 4} \right) \end{matrix}$

[0051] In the case where Mj=mj, the correlation coefficient Ok represents an auto-correlation coefficient and it is represented by the following equation. $\begin{matrix} {O_{k} = {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{n}{S_{k + j - 1}m_{j}}}} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 5} \right) \end{matrix}$

[0052] Sub-peaks other than correlation peaks (mod(k/n)=1) are referred to as side lobes. As this value becomes smaller, the error rate of the receiver is typically reduced. For the case where the code length is at least 14, such a code that the side lobe value calculated by using the Expression 5 is 3 or less is shown in TABLES 1 through 9. Calculation conducted here corresponds to all arrangements (0, 0), (0, 1), (1, 0) and (1, 1) of 0 and 1 of the information code. (The above described 0 and 1 of the information code indicate that they are mutually in the relation of inverted code.) Calculation was conducted as to such an arrangement of Sk that signs whereby mj is multiplied are (+, +, −). That is, calculating to Expression 5 above is performed o a single code sequence S_(k) which includes M_(js) have signs (+,+,−), respectively (i.e., S_(k)=+M_(j),+M_(j)−M_(j)). (In the remaining case where the signs are (−, −, +), a result equal in absolute value and opposite in sign to the above described result is obtained. In other words, only the polarity is different. Therefore, the above described calculation alone suffices.)

[0053] In TABLES 1 through 9, “bj” is a derived code sequence, and “number” is a value obtained by regarding the “bj” as a binary number and converting it to a decimal number. Furthermore, “max corr. (forward)” is a side lobe value, and “max corr. (backward)” is a maximum value of correlation value obtained in the case where codes are reversed bilaterally. Furthermore, “dc level” is the sum total of n “mj”s. As a matter of course, similar results are obtained even if code inversion (1

0) is conducted on these codes. Since it takes an enormous time to conduct calculations, inverted codes are omitted for lengthy code lengths. If these codes are used as the pseudo noise code, there is obtained a spread spectrum communication device having a processing gain of at least 14 in auto-correlation side lobe, having smaller time-axis side lobes of received matched signal, having a smaller error rate, and having favorable characteristics.

[0054] A second application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIG. 3. The same components as those in FIG. 1 showing the first application example are denoted by like numerals. FIG. 3 is a diagram showing a receiving part of the second application example of the present invention. A received signal taken in from an antenna 7 is amplified in an amplifier 8, converted to a matched signal in a matched filter 11, detected in a detector circuit 12, demodulated, converted to a digital signal by a square wave output circuit 13, and outputted from an output terminal 10. In the present application example, a matched filter is used as a demodulating element. This results in a feature that the circuit can be simply formed.

[0055] A third application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIGS. 4 and 5.

[0056]FIG. 4 is a diagram schematically showing a SAW (surface acoustic wave) matched filter 18. On a SAW substrate 14, an input interdigital electrode set 15 and an output interdigital electrode set 16 are disposed. Furthermore, in order to suppress a reflected wave coming from a substrate face, a sound absorbing material 17 is coated. The input interdigital electrode set 15 has such a structure that the electrode polarity is inverted every electrode. (The electric polarity differs depending upon whether the electrode is connected to an upper common electrode or a lower common electrode.) The output interdigital electrode set 16 has a matched filter structure in which the electrode polarity is inverted in association with the pseudo noise code. As the substrate 14, an ST-cut crystal substrate is used in order to prevent the center frequency from being shifted due to the temperature.

[0057]FIG. 5 is a system block diagram of the present application example. The same components as those in FIG. 1 showing the first application example are denoted by like numerals. A received signal taken in from an antenna 7 is amplified in an amplifier 8, converted to a matched signal in a SAW matched filter 18 of the present application example, multiplied in a mixer 20 by a signal preceding it by one information bit and delayed in a SAW delay line 19 and thus detected, converted in a square wave output circuit 13 to a digital signal, and outputted from an output terminal 10. In the present application example, delay detection is conducted by using an SAW element. This results in a feature that the detector circuit can be formed more simply.

[0058]FIG. 6 is a diagram showing mj corresponding to a 25-chip code bj of number (num) 947565 shown in TABLE 7.

[0059]FIG. 7 is a diagram showing a matched signal waveform in the case where this mj code is used on the transmitting side and the reference code of the matched filter on the receiving side is made the same. The carrier frequency is 300 MHz, and the information rate is 1 Mbps. At this time, a favorable side lobe suppression factor (peak to side lobe ratio D/U=18.2 dB) is obtained.

[0060]FIG. 8 is a diagram showing the frequency response of the matched filter of the present application example. In FIG. 8, ripples on the frequency response correspond to side lobe deterioration. For the purpose of comparison, the case where the conventional 13-chip Barker code is used will now be also described.

[0061]FIG. 9 is a diagram showing mj corresponding to this Barker code.

[0062]FIG. 10 is a diagram showing the matched signal waveform in the case where this mj code is used on the transmitting side and the reference code of the matched filter on the receiving side is made the same.

[0063] In the same way as the present application example, the carrier frequency was set equal to 300 MHz and the information rate was set equal to 1 Mbps. A side lobe suppression factor (peak to side lobe ratio D/U=22.1 dB) was obtained.

[0064]FIG. 11 is a diagram showing the frequency response of the matched filter in the case where the Barker code is used. It is shown that ripples are comparatively small and the side lobe suppression factor is large.

[0065] As described above, use of the present application example makes it possible to obtain a communication device having a chip length of 25 and improve significantly the processing gain at the sacrifice of only a slight side lobe deterioration as compared with the case where the conventional Barker code is used.

[0066] A fourth application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIGS. 12 and 13. In the above described third application example, the side lobe suppression factor was D/U=18.2 dB. In the present application example, however, further side lobe suppression is conducted.

[0067]FIG. 12 is a diagram showing a reference 25-chip tap coefficient Mj of the receiving side in the present application example. In order to conduct side lobe suppression of the matched signal, respective taps are provided with weights.

[0068]FIG. 13 shows a matched signal waveform in the case where the mj code of the third application example are used on the transmitting side and respective taps of the matched filter of the receiving side are provided with weights corresponding to the above described reference code NJ. Coefficients of FIG. 12 were derived by using an optimization algorithm. The carrier frequency is 300 MHz, and the information rate is 1 Mbps. By doing so, a favorable side lobe suppression factor (peak to side lobe ratio D/U=19.8 dB) as compared with the third application example is obtained without increasing the number of taps of the receiving side.

[0069] A fifth application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIGS. 14 and 15. In the fourth application example, the number of taps was set equal to 25 equally for both the transmitting side and the receiving side. In the present application example, however, the number of taps on the receiving side was set equal to 49 in order to conduct further side lobe suppression.

[0070]FIG. 14 is a diagram showing the reference 49-chip tap coefficient NJ on the receiving side of the present application example. For matched signal side lobe suppression, respective taps are provided with weights.

[0071]FIG. 15 is a diagram showing a matched signal waveform in the case where the mj code of the third application example is used on the transmitting side and respective taps of the matched filter on the receiving side are provided with weights corresponding to the above described reference code MJ. Coefficients of FIG. 14 were derived by using the optimization algorithm. The carrier frequency is 300 MHz, and the information rate is 1 Mbps. As compared with the conventional case where the Barker code is used, a favorable side lobe suppression factor (peak to side lobe ratio D/tJ=24.4 dB) is obtained.

[0072] A sixth application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIG. 16. The same components as those in FIG. 5 showing the third application example are denoted by like numerals. In the third application example, demodulation is conducted directly in the transmission signal band. Since the frequency is high, however, signal processing is difficult in some cases. In the present application example, the frequency is lowered by multiplying the received signal with a signal generated by an oscillator 22 conducted in a mixer 21 and thereafter demodulation processing is conducted. If the present application example is used, demodulation processing with a comparatively low frequency band is possible, resulting in a feature of easy circuit design.

[0073] A seventh application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIG. 17.

[0074]FIG. 17 is a diagram showing a receiving part of a communication device in the seventh application example. The same components as those in FIG. 3 showing the second application example are denoted by like numerals. In the second application example, demodulation is conducted by using a matched filter. In the case where the information rate is slow, however, the device size of the matched filter becomes large. In the present application example, an signal outputted from a pseudo noise code generator 23 is multiplied in a mixer 24 by a carrier signal of an oscillator 25 having the same frequency as that of the carrier, and a resultant signal is synchronized with the received signal and it is multiplied in a mixer 26 by the received signal. As a result, a demodulated signal can be obtained. The present application example has a feature that signal demodulation can be conducted without increasing the device size even in the case where the information rate is comparatively slow.

[0075] An eighth application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIG. 18.

[0076]FIG. 18 is a diagram showing a receiving part of a communication device in the eighth application example. The same components as those in FIG. 3 showing the second application example are denoted by like numerals. In the seventh application example, a pseudo noise signal is generated to conduct demodulation. On the receiver side as well, however, a signal generator is needed, resulting in a large circuit scale. In the present application example, a carrier frequency oscillator 28 is multiplied in a mixer 27 by the received signal. Furthermore, a resultant signal is converted to a digital signal by a detector circuit 29 and a square wave output circuit 30. In a digital correlation signal processing circuit 31, the digital signal is subjected to processing according to the equation of the Expression 4 and the equation of the Expression 5. In the present application example, correlation demodulation processing can be conducted by using digital processing. This results in a feature that the device can be fabricated at comparatively low cost in the case where the information rate is comparatively slow, or the pseudo noise code length is short.

[0077] A ninth application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIG. 19.

[0078]FIG. 19 is a diagram showing a receiving part of a communication device in the ninth application example. The same components as those in FIG. 17 showing the seventh application example are denoted by like numerals. In the eighth application example, demodulation is conducted in the digital circuit. In the case where the information rate is fast and the pseudo noise code length is long, processing cannot be conducted in some oases because the clock frequency of the digital circuit is low. In the present application example, a signal outputted from a pseudo noise code generator 23 is multiplied in a mixer 24 by a carrier signal of an oscillator 25 having the same frequency as the carrier. A resultant signal and the received signal are subjected to convolution integral processing in a convolver 32 which is a correlation element. Furthermore, a resultant signal is subjected to demodulation in a detector circuit 33. The present application example has a feature that the demodulated signal can be obtained comparatively easily so long as the carrier frequency can be synchronized with the pseudo noise code cycle even in the case where the information rate is fast and the pseudo noise code length is long.

[0079] As compared with the sixth through ninth application examples, the case where the matched filter is used as in the second and third application examples has a feature that signal synchronizing is unnecessary because the code on the receiving side is fixed. On the contrary, the sixth through ninth application examples have a feature that the reference code on the receiving side can be changed freely so as to correspond to the code on the transmitting side because the code is variable.

[0080] A tenth application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIG. 20.

[0081]FIG. 20 is a diagram showing a detection part of a communication device in the tenth application example. In the present application example, a delay detection system is used as the detection system, and demodulation is conducted by multiplying a current signal, in a mixer 35, by a signal preceding a current signal by one information bit supplied from a delay line 34. In the present application example, the detector circuit can be simplified.

[0082] An eleventh application example of the present invention will now be described by referring to FIG. 21.

[0083]FIG. 21 is a diagram showing a detection part of a communication device of the eleventh application example. In the present application example, a synchronous detection system is used as the detection system, and demodulation is conducted by multiplying a clock reproduced by a clock detection circuit 36, in a mixer 35, by a signal. In the present application example, a better error rate than that of the delay detection system is obtained.

[0084] A twelfth application example of the present invention will be now described by referring to FIG. 22.

[0085]FIG. 22 is a diagram showing a communication system of the twelfth application example. In the present application example, communication devices of the present system are used in a LAN. Present communication devices 41 and 42 are connected to a LAN cable 38. Present communication devices 40 and 43 are connected to terminals 39 and 44. Present communication devices 46 and 47 are connected to terminals 45 and 48. Between terminals (without a wire system between), communication can be conducted freely. If the present application example is used, it is not necessary to connect each terminal to a LAN cable, and consequently terminals can be freely moved.

INDUSTRIAL APPLICABILITY

[0086] According to the present invention, the side lobes of the correlation coefficient can be suppressed with the pseudo noise code length of at least 14 as heretofore described. Therefore, the error rate can be reduced and the processing gain can be improved in a spread spectrum communication device and a communication system using the spread spectrum communication device. 

What is claimed is:
 1. A spread spectrum communication device in a direct sequence spread communication device using a pseudo noise code inverted in polarity so as to correspond to digital information, said spread spectrum communication device comprising: a pseudo noise code generator for generating, as said pseudo noise code, a code sequence having a code length of at least 14 and having a value corresponding to a peak of one of plural absolute auto-correlation side lobes having the smallest value, which is calculated such that in a synchronous detection system, a signal code sequence Sk corresponds to 1 and 0 of an information signal and is represented by the following equation: $\begin{matrix} {S_{k} = \left\lbrack \begin{matrix} {m_{{mod}\quad {({k/n})}}\left( {{data} = {1\quad {or}\quad 0}} \right)} \\ {- {m_{{mod}\quad {({k/n})}}\left( {{data} = {0\quad {or}\quad 1}} \right)}} \end{matrix} \right.} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 1} \right) \end{matrix}$

wherein m_(j) (j==1, 2, . . . ,n; n=code length) corresponds to one of the pseudo noise codes bj shown in TABLES 1 through 9 of the specification, and is represented by the following equation: $\begin{matrix} \left\lbrack {m_{j} = \left\lbrack \begin{matrix} {1\quad \left( {b_{j} = 1} \right)} \\ {{- 1}\quad \left( {b_{j} = 0} \right)} \end{matrix} \right.} \right. & \left( {{Expression}\quad 2} \right) \end{matrix}$

wherein in a delay detection system, the signal code sequence Sk is represented by the following equation: $\begin{matrix} {S_{k} = \left\lbrack \begin{matrix} {m_{{mod}\quad {({k/n})}}{S_{k - 1}\left( {{data} = {1\quad {or}\quad 0}} \right)}} \\ {{- m_{{mod}\quad {({k/n})}}}{S_{k - 1}\left( {{data} = {0\quad {or}\quad 1}} \right)}} \end{matrix} \right.} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 3} \right) \end{matrix}$

wherein a reference code of a receiving side is denoted by M_(j), and a correlation coefficient O_(k) is represented by the following equation: $\begin{matrix} {O_{k} = {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{n}{S_{k + j - 1}M_{j}}}} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 4} \right) \end{matrix}$

in a case where M_(j)=m_(j), and the correlation coefficient O_(k) represents an auto-correlation coefficient which is represented by the following equation: $\begin{matrix} {O_{k} = {\sum\limits_{j = 1}^{n}{S_{k + j - 1}m_{j}}}} & \left( {{Expression}\quad 5} \right) \end{matrix}$

wherein sub-peaks other than correlation peaks (mod(k/n)

) are referred to as side lobes; and means for applying said code sequence so as to demodulate the information signal, wherein said value of said peak of the one of the absolute auto-correlation side lobes having the smallest value refers to the highest point of said one of the absolute auto-correlation side lobes. 